Social Media Growth Stats

Kirsten has had major success cultivating highly-engaged social media followings for several news brands, consistently outpacing market competition. Here's an overview:

Grew New York Post Instagram audience by 30 percent in first year on the job; instrumental in launching a 'link in bio' function and leading a strategy overhaul for the platform.

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Instrumental in the New York Post TikTok account launch, strategy and production -- garnering more than 1 million video views in its first month live.

​Brought KATU News to number one in the market each month for total Facebook interactions and video views, highest Facebook engagement rate and largest follower growth, with a monthly reach of more than 12 million. KATU's Facebook page consistently outpaced those of three other market television stations and Oregon's largest newspaper by a sizable margin.

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Grew KATU News' Instagram following by 1,000 percent in two years, organizing a complete overhaul of platform strategy and implementing the regular use of Stories and IGTV. KATU consistently claimed the highest Instagram engagement rate in the market during Kirsten's tenure.

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Considered a company leader in social media strategy, managing both of Sinclair Broadcast Group's top social media presences at the time: KATU News and ABC7 (WJLA). Kirsten consistently landed KATU News in the number one spot for monthly social performance out of Sinclair Broadcast Group's 170+ stations, and did the same for ABC7 during her time there.

Grew KATU News' Twitter following by 141 percent in two years, and implemented the regular use of Periscope's producer function and Twitter Live to bring followers breaking news coverage from Portland and around the world.

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Grew KATU News' average monthly Facebook video views from about two million to 11 million in two years, spearheading the use of Facebook Live and text-on-screen videos.

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Brought ABC7 (WJLA) from fourth to first in the Washington, DC TV market for total Facebook interactions month-over-month during her tenure.

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Increased Facebook Live presence and implemented the regular use of a text-on-screen video format to bring ABC7 to number one status in the market for Facebook video views month-over-month.

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Grew ABC7's Instagram following by 33 percent in six months.

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Achieved monthly reach of more than 10 million on ABC7's Facebook page.

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Managed katu.com website, consistently grossing an average of 10 million monthly page views

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Kirsten helped produce Facebook Live coverage of the 2018 State of the Union Address for ABC7. The video made Delmondo's list of top 25 SOTU streams on Facebook (in terms of reach). ABC7's feed was the only stream from a local news outlet to make the list, beating NPR, CBS, Vice, Huffington Post and several other major media companies.